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Kōrero: Plays and playwrights

Wednesday to come, 1984

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<em>Wednesday to come</em>, 1984

Wednesday to comeis the first in a trilogy of plays by Renee (formerly Renee Taylor), about four generations of working-class New Zealand women. It is set in 1934, during a hunger march by unemployed workers. Wednesday to come was first performed at Wellington's Downstage Theatre in August 1984. This photograph shows some of the cast – from left, Jane Waddell, Kate Harcourt and Davina Whitehouse.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Downstage Theatre Company Collection

Reference: PAColl-7704-23-4-02

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Murray Edmond, Plays and playwrights – Social issues on stage, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/43969/wednesday-to-come-1984 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Murray Edmond, i tāngia i te 16 January 2014.